I recognize and acknowledge with gratitude, that I am privileged to work and create on the territories of the Pacheedaht First Nation—or “People of the Seafoam”—who are a Nuu-chah-nulth people
from the southwest coast of Vancouver Island.
I welcome opportunities to learn, unlearn, listen, and understand
and to find ways that I may make impactful acknowledgement and change.
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